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Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed
September 20 - 25
(During the G-20 Summit in
Pittsburgh)
Yes to Jobs & Human Needs; No to
War & Wall Street Greed
- Sunday, September 20 - Rally & March for a Real
Jobs Program
- Building a Tent City in Pittsburgh for the Unemployed
& Supporters the weekend before the G-20 Summit
- Organizing Caravans of Unemployed People and Supporters to Converge on Pittsburgh during the week of September 20-25.
- Marches, Protests and Events Before and During the
G20 Summit addressing demands such as: Bring the Troops
Home from Iraq & Afghanistan Now! & Free Mumia Abu-Jamal,
World-Renown Political Prisoner, Journalist, Activists and 'Voice
of the Voiceless!"
In September the eyes of the world will be on Pittsburgh, where
the G20 countries will meet to consider what to do about the biggest
global economic crisis since the 1930s. The heads of governments,
finance ministers and central bankers that will be in Pittsburgh
for the summit hear the concerns of bankers and corporate executives
all the time. They need to listen to the voices of the millions
of people who have lost their jobs and their homes because of the
crisis. The Bail out the People Movement, a coalition of community,
labor, religious, and grassroots activists, wants to help dramatize
the crisis of joblessness, and the need for action both in the U.S.
and worldwide to the G20 summit. It is now clear that the stimulus
legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in March has done little
to stop the loss of jobs. There is no recovery for the unemployed,
the underemployed and the poor; and things are only getting worse.
This is why we’re asking you to help make the idea of a Global Week
of Solidarity with the Unemployed from September 19 through September
26, the week of the G20 Summit, a reality.
A TENT CITY AND MARCH FOR JOBS On Sunday, Sept.
20, the tent city will open with a rally and march for jobs. The
main site for the tent city will be next to the Monumental Baptist
Church in an historic section of the African-American community
of Pittsburgh called “The Hill.” This location is just a short walk
or march from the convention center where the G20 summit will be
held, and from the rest of downtown Pittsburgh. Unemployed people
and their supporters will inhabit the tent city from Sept 20 through
Sept. 25. Additional locations for other encampments in Pittsburgh
are being considered as well. This is why we’re asking you to help
make the idea of a Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed
from September 19 through September 26, the week of the G20 Summit,
a reality.
IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE – THIS IS A WEEK OF SOLIDARITY
WITH YOU The Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed is
also a week of solidarity with those who have lost their homes to
foreclosures and evictions; those who have been forced to take part-time
or temporary jobs because there are no full-time jobs; workers who
have seen their wages and hours cut; autoworkers whose plants have
been closed; immigrant workers who are fighting for their rights;
communities that are fighting gentrification and budget cuts to
social programs; students who are being forced out of school because
of the debt burden and rising tuition cost; the survivors and displaced
victims of the Katrina/Rita hurricanes and the government's criminally
negligent response; poor and working people everywhere, especially
in poor countries who are bearing the cruel brunt of the economic
crisis; workers everywhere fighting for the right to organize and
in the U.S. for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act in the U.S.;
All who need single payer health care; retirees who need their healthcare
& pensions safeguarded; and young people, especially Black and
Latina/o youths whom the system has condemned to a jobless future.
IT’S TIME TO BAILOUT THE UNEMPLOYED WITH A REAL JOBS PROGRAM
In the days before and during the G20 summit, events and marches
will take place to emphasize this central point: More than just
another stimulus package is needed. It’s time for a serious, direct
and massive jobs program on par with the Works Progress Administration
of the 1930s. We must fight for a real jobs program for the unemployed
and underemployed that pays a living wage performing socially meaningful
work; and an income for those unable to work. Any claim that the
resources for a serious jobs program are not available must be rejected.
If governments, particularly the U.S. government, can make available
trillions of dollars for bailing out banks and corporations as well
as funding the Pentagon’s endless wars, & Occupations, they
can find the resources to bail out the unemployed and underemployed.
THIS IS A GLOBAL CALL BECAUSE JOBLESSNESS IS A GLOBAL CRISIS
Mass unemployment is a global phenomenon. The right to a job at
a living wage must be a global demand. Instead of being pitted against
each other, unemployed and working people across the world can only
improve their conditions by working and fighting together for their
common interests. Activists and organizations everywhere are encouraged
to support the Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed and
organize events in conjunction with it.
DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S FINAL CAUSE: THE RIGHT OF ALL TO
A JOB OR AN INCOME The need and the right of everyone to
either a job or a guaranteed income is the cause that Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. dedicated the last year of his life to. The present
global economic depression has made King’s last cause even more
urgent today than it was when he was alive. Dr. King also knew that:
no matter the magnitude of suffering, governments do not respond
if those who are suffering remain invisible and silent. Even a history-making
president like Obama is still not a substitute for the mass movement
for social justice. During the depression of the 1930’s, President
Franklyn Delano Roosevelt once told labor leaders who were asking
him to do more to help workers and the poor “I agree with you, know
make me do it.” FDR’s advice applies to President Obama too. The purpose
of the Global Week of Solidarity with the Unemployed is to make
sure that people who are usually ignored are seen and heard.
ORGANIZING CARAVANS OF UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE AND SUPPORTERS TO PITTSBURGH
Over the next weeks, organizing will be going on in every region
of the country to bring caravans of unemployed people and supporters
to Pittsburgh in Sept.
THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:
Bail Out the People Movement
Solidarity Center
55 W. 17th St. #5C
New York, NY 10011
212.633.6646
www.BailOutPeople.org
Email: bailoutpeople.org/cmnt.shtml
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